“If you can't acclimate, you disintegrate.”

“Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from thingsanymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," hesaid. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to acceptthan to face it.”

“The way fire moves, it consumes you. It's so beautiful you want to touch it but you know you can't. I think that's part of its draw.”

“Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.”

“You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like whathappens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how youreact. That's the trick.”

“You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)”

“Gray yells that he can't just let me go because you don't give up on the people you love, but maybe I need to lose someone in order to understand that."You're dreaming," he says. "Call me when you decide to wake up.”